The University Museum and Art Gallery is pleased to announce the presentation of Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull, an exhibition organized in collaboration with the painter and with the support of the Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong and Macao. A selection of 26 artworks will introduce the work of the famous abstract painter for the first time in East Asia, displaying the painterly and architectural styles and themes that have influenced his work.

Painter, sculptor and engraver Roberto Turnbull was born in Mexico in 1959, and his work has been internationally shown and collected since 1983. His paintings are often collages that contain sketches—figurative and abstract in style. Half factual document, half utopia, sometimes a dream or nightmare, many of Turnbull’s depictions are characterized by warm and bright colours and geometric forms that relate his two-dimensional work to three-dimensional sculpture and architecture.